Subject terminology

But when I pressed this doorbell I did not hear a ring.

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

I pressed once more in case the doorbell was not operational.

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

The house, I could see, was shabby.

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

Mark you, shabby in a grand sort of way.

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

I was sure this house could once have been home to a doctor or a lawyer or perhaps a friend of a friend of the king's.

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

Only the house of someone high-class would have pillars at the doorway.

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

Ornate pillars that twisted with elaborate design.

• Noun phrase

• Verb

• Adverb

The glass stained with coloured pictures as a church would have.

• Adverb

• Noun phrase

• Metaphor

• Verb

It was true that some were missing, replaced by cardboard and strips of white tape.

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

But who knows what devilish deeds Mr Hitler's bombs carried out during the war?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Rhetorical question

• Personification